Yan Wang

Research Interests

I am broadly interested in the genomic evolution of fungi. I seek to understand the genetic make-up of fungal symbionts and how they have adapted to their host environments over evolutionary timescales. The research program in my laboratory primarily uses fungi and insects to study adaptation, evolution, host-microbe interactions, and host specificity by integrating modern genomic approaches with traditional phylogenetic methods.

Keywords:

• early-diverging fungi
• horizontal gene transfer
• host-microbe interactions
• insects
• phylogenetics

Research Area: Biodiversity & Systematics, Computational Biology, Evolutionary Genomics, Mycology

Current Research

Recent areas of research focus include:

• Assembling high-quality fungal genomes using long-read sequencing data
• Developing phylogenomic markers for molecular systematics of early-diverging fungi
• Investigating population genomic structure of insect-associated fungi
• Examining experimental evolution and gene expression preference of insect gut-dwelling fungi

Interested students and postdoctoral fellows should inquire via email. More details can be found at the laboratory website.